Financial analysis Flashcards
benchmarking
motivates employessd and helps managers evaluate performance, comparing a comany with its prior performance or with best practices from other companies
participative budget
those who are directly impacted by a budget are involved in the development of the budget
Budgetary slack
managers intentionally understate expected revenues or overstate expected expenses
zero-based budget
all revenues and expenses must be justified for each new period. The previous year’s actual results are ignored
strategic budget
long-term financial plan used to coordinate the activities needed to achieve the long-term goals
operational budget
short-term financial plan used to coordinate the activities needed to achieve the short-term goals
continuous budget
operational budget that involve continuously adding one additional month as each month goes by
static budget
only one level of sales volume
master budget is a static budget, so it is prepared for only one level of sales volumes
flexible budget
for various levels of sales volume.
separate variable costs from fixed costs
the variable costs put the flex in the flexible budget
master budget
set of budgeted financial statements and supporting schedules for an entire organization
operating budgets
set of budgets that projects sales revenue, cost of goods sold, and selling and administrative expenses, all ow which feed into the cash budget and then the budgeted financial statements
capital expenditure budget
presents company’s plan for purchasing long-term assets
financial budget
includes the cash budget and the budgeted financial statements
cash budget
details how the business expects to go from the beginning cash balance to the desired ending cash balances
GOGS how to calculate
beginning inventory + purchases - ending inventory
purchases how to calculate
Gogs + ending inventory - beginning inventory
budget performance report
report that summarizes the actual results, budgeted amounts and the differences
variance
the difference between an actual amount and the budgeted amoun
static budget variance
difference between actual results and the expected results in the static budget
to create flexible budget you need:
budgeted selling price per unit, budgeted variable cost per unit, total budgeted fixed costs, different levels within the relevant range
flexible budget variance
difference betwee actual results and expected results in the flexible budget for actual units sold
sales volume variance
difference between expected results in the flexible budget for the actual units sold and the static budget